Team Lotus Enterprise today announces that it has purchased British sportscar maker Caterham Cars. The Formula 1 squad will see the legendary lightweight sportscar manufacturer expand its brand profile and product family.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — An unoccupied building that once was part of innovative NASCAR designer and mechanic Smokey Yunick’s “Best Damn Garage In Town” was destroyed by fire Monday night, according to a report in the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
Yunick moved to Florida from New Jersey after serving as a B-17 bomber pilot during World War II. He began repairing cars at his mobile home, then purchased a laundromat  … More
The FIA World Touring Car Championship and Infineon Raceway have tentatively reached an agreement that would bring the series to California’s Sonoma Valley in September 2012.
“Bringing the championship to the USA was the next item on our agenda and the last one to fulfill our aim for a really global calendar,†said WTCC promoter Marcello Lotti. “So far we have … More
A new attraction at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma brings a popular overseas form of car racing called “drifting” to the local racing scene, Wednesday April 13, 2011. During Wednesday night drags this summer, the lower paddock will be converted to a drift course for Bay Area racers, amateur and professional.
… Where else but your PlayStation do you see someone roar full-throttle into a 180-degree turn, skid sideways through the bend and then immediately start a squealing slide into the next turn — all while maintaining speed and control?
But silicon chips can’t conjure the smoke and noise from burning rubber that filled the air around the course. And Swan, and his fellow drivers, are flesh-and-blood participants in the surest motorsporting trend to bald your tires: Drifting  … More